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SONGWRITER
El Manisero: essential rumba song behind Caribbean music world expasion
El Manisero or The Peanut Vendor is an essential rumba song written circa 1928 by the leading Cuban composer Moisés...
ORCHESTRA
Les Indes Galantes: Rameau's controversial opera as the essence of Rococo style
Les Indes Galantes is Jean-Philippe Rameau's first stage work in the opéra-ballet form with a prologue and four entrées...
SONGWRITER
Caldonia: the song that spawned the term rock and roll
Caldonia is a 1945 song released by Louis Jordan, an American songwriter and saxophonist whose popularity in the 1940s...
SONGWRITER
Statesboro Blues: no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan's track Blind Willie McTell is perhaps the best tribute to this outstanding traveling street artist who has...
SONGWRITER
Misty Mountain Hop: Led Zeppelin's contribution to pot legalization
Misty Mountain Hop is an iconic 1971 Led Zeppelin song the title of which is associated with the mountains described by...
Swarmandal
Kishori Amonkar reclaimed her lost voice with Ayurveda
Kishori Amonkar was one of the most respected classical vocalists of the Hindustani tradition who intensively developed...
PIANO
Kinderszenen and Schumann's metronome mystery
Kinderszenen or Scenes from Childhood is a set of short piano pieces written by Robert Schumann in 1838. Although these...
SONGWRITER
Hushabye: folk roots of famous rock and roll lullaby
Hushabye is the first successful song recorded by the American rock band The Mystics to spend nine weeks on the national...
SONGWRITER
Mairzy Doats lyrics inspired by 15th century nursery rhyme
Mairzy Doats is a notable nursery rhyme song written in the 1940s when parody and humor songs were in high demand. The...
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Dum Maro Dum: psychedelic Hindi lyrics in Western arrangement that influenced generations
Dum Maro Dum is a popular Hindi song written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Rahul Dev Burman for the 1971 Bollywood...
SONGWRITER
Coal Miner's Daughter was forced to remove a third of the lyrics from her autobiographical song
Coal Miner's Daughter is an autobiographical song by the influential country-genre songwriter Loretta Lynn in which she...
ORCHESTRA
La Marcho di Rei: L'Arlesienne opening theme harks back to Provencal Christmas carol
The origin of the iconic theme in the energetic opening of Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne is still unclear. Presumably,...
SONGWRITER
Incense and Peppermints: a tangled story of song production
Incense and Peppermints is an essential psychedelic rock song released in 1967 by the LA-based band Strawberry Alarm...
SONGWRITER
Wabash Cannonball: the ballad of the railway Flying Dutchman
Wabash Cannonball, also known as The Great Rock Island Route, is an influential American folk song the first known...
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Last Train to Clarksville: a duo of songwriters behind the first Monkees hit
Last Train to Clarksville is the debut single released by The Monkees in 1966 which would be their most successful song...
MALE VOCAL
First musical steps of Bhimsen Joshi
Bhimsen Joshi was a highly regarded vocalist who organically combined all aspects of Indian classical music, be it...
ORCHESTRA
Ombra mai fu: Handel's best-known melody of failed Serse opera
The highly acclaimed instrumental composition known as Handel's Largo comes from the opening aria of his 1738 opera...
Poetry
Guajira Guantanamera: song meaning and origin of the lyrics
Guantanamera is a demonym—a word that identifies a group of people in relation to a particular place—in this case, used...
SONGWRITER
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is an iconic World War II tune written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince for the military musical...
Music Theory
Authentic cadence exemplified by The Beatles songs
In theory, a cadence refers to a harmonic turnaround that appears at the end of a musical phrase, and the role it plays...
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